[3261] Like the “callaina” or “callais.”
[3262] See Chapter [33] of this Book.
[3263] “Attractive stone.” A large rocky stone, according to Solinus. Dalechamps thinks that it must have been a kind of amber or bitumen, an opinion with which Desfontaines coincides.
[3264] “Looking-glass stone,” or “mirror stone.” A variety of Specular stone, probably.
[3265] “Onion stone.” A kind of agate, according to Dalechamps. It had its name probably from the union of its streaks like those on the neck of an onion.
[3266] “Pottery stone.”
[3267] See B. xxix. c. 38, Vol. V. p. 415.
[3268] The Cinædus. See B. xxxii. c. [53].
[3269] By its clear or clouded colour, it was said.
[3270] “Wax stone.”